1st Edition

Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research Endarkened Storywork

By S.R. Toliver Copyright 2022
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

This research-based book foregrounds Black narrative traditions and honors alternative methods of data collection, analysis, and representation. Toliver presents a semi-fictionalized narrative in an alternative science fiction setting, refusing white-centric qualitative methods and honoring the ways of the griots who were the scholars of their African nations. By utilizing Black storytelling,... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1 – Introduction: My Name is Jane and This is My World

Chapter 2 – Exploring Womanism: Finding the Othermothers, Entering the Harbor

Chapter 3 – Expanding the Literature: Speculative Maps, Activating Dreams

Chapter 4 – Introducing the Research Partners: Black Girls and Their World

Chapter 5 – Research Partner Stories: Bailey

Chapter 6 – Research Partner Stories: Victoria

Chapter 7 – Research Partner Stories: Amber

Chapter 8 – Research Partner Stories: Talyn

Chapter 9 – Research Partner Stories: Terrah

Chapter 10 – Research Partner Stories: Avenae’J

Chapter 11 – Conclusion: Going Back, Dreaming Again

Companion 1 – Exploring the Introduction

Companion 2 – Theory in the Word

Companion 3 – Fictionalizing the Research Literature

Companion 4 – The Research Partners

Companion 5 – Concluding the Story

Author’s Note

Biography

S. R. Toliver is Assistant Professor of Literacy and Secondary Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her scholarship centers the freedom dreams of Black youth and honors the historical legacy that Black stories and Black imaginations have had and will have on activism and social change.